Class by Themselves?

The Origins of Special Education in Toronto and Beyond

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

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In A Class by Themselves?, Jason Ellis provides an erudite and balanced history of special needs education, an early twentieth century educational innovation that continues to polarize school communities across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Ellis situates the evolution of this educational innovation in its proper historical context to explore the rise of intelligence testing, the decline of child labour and rise of vocational guidance, emerging trends in mental hygiene and child psychology, and the implementation of a new progressive curriculum. At the core of this study are the students. This book is the first to draw deeply on rich archival sources, including 1000 pupil records of young people with learning difficulties, who attended public schools between 1918 and 1945. Ellis uses these records to retell individual stories that illuminate how disability filtered down through the school system’s many nooks and crannies to mark disabled students as different from (and often inferior to) other school children. A Class by Themselves? sheds new light on these and other issues by bringing special education’s curious past to bear on its constantly contested present.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-02-22
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781442628717
UtmärkelserCommended for Disability History Association 2020 Outstanding Book Award 2021 (United States)

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Pedagogik: historia inom Psykologi och pedagogik
Psykologi inom Psykologi och pedagogik

Introduction1 Eugenics Goes to School and Other Strange Legacies: Auxiliary Education’s Entangled Reform Origins2 "Inequalities of Children in Original Endowment": iq Testing Transforms Auxiliary Education, 1919–303 Avoiding "Blunders and Stupid Mistakes": Auxiliary Education for Adolescents, 1923–354 "A Mental Equality Where Physical Equality Has Been Denied": Sight-Saving, Speech and Hearing, and Orthopaedic Classes, 1920–455 The "Remarkable Case of Mabel Helen": Special-Subject Disabilities and Auxiliary Education, 1930–456 Changing Ideas in a Changing Environment: The Impact of Personality Adjustment and Child GuidanceConclusionAppendix A Pupil Record CardsAppendix B Auxiliary Program Enrolments

"A Class by Themselves tells a complicated story, but one that embraces the complexities and contradictions. Ellis is creative in including neighborhoods, teachers, students, and parents in a narrative that might easily have stayed at the levels of theory and policy. In the concluding chapter, Ellis points to the ways that this history set the stage for further developments and present-day concerns in education, connections that will already be apparent to many readers by the end of his book."